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Sharing tracks with Network Rail is not a barrier, as the Tyne and Wear Metro proves, which has hexagonal signs suffixed with "kmh" alongside the usual round signs displaying the limit in miles per hour. Picture of an example from Wikipedia...

Link to RAIB report https://www.gov.uk/government/news/report-022024-derailment-of-a-tram-at-bulwell

I see timetable shows a peak and Mon - Sat daytime frequency is every 10 Minutes. I'm sure when I lived in Birmingham over a decade ago the Trams used to run more frequently than this (every 6 Minutes at peak times and every 8 Minutes during the day IIRC). Also, why is the line from St George's...

BTP aren't responsible for policing the Tramway in Nottingham, this is done by Nottinghamshire Police.

It seems a bit pointless to go all that way and not link it up with Elizabeth line at either Abbey Wood or Woolwich. Is there any detail about exactly how the new bus links will be “rapid?” I had to travel from Harrow to Heathrow airport during the afternoon peak on Friday. Despite being...

I believe local authorities do have the power to withdraw licenses for events, or at least they would receive advice that to go ahead with an event could possibly not be compliant with their licensing conditions - the Coldplay concert on 19 August last year at Wembley Stadium was cancelled at...

I’ve noticed over the summer there have been a lot of periods Minor delays have been advertised due to a shortage of available Trams.

I suspect these networks will do better than others due to the presence of conductors on board the vehicles. Metrolink will probably suffer also due to many of the stations (primarily the ex-BR stations) being relatively isolated from street traffic (up flights of stairs or within cuttings)...

I’m not sure exactly what that document is; is it PRM-TSI because that does not apply to the DLR; only for main line services. The correct legislation to for the DLR is the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations 2010, commonly just known as Rvar. The applicable...

How busy is Broad Street these days anyway? I lived in Birmingham between 2005 - 2012 and Broad Street was quite popular with many pubs, bars, and nightclubs. I went back at the last week of Nov last year for the Christmas markets and was shocked at how many places were closed down. Aside from...

Central and Victoria lines, still used and in place. They were installed for the Jubilee line but not activated or signed.

I’ve done all the track on every ‘Public transport’ (ie. not including heritage/leisure systems) Tramways in the UK, with the exception of: - the third side of the triangle in Sheffield that goes direct from the railway station avoiding the city centre, - Sheffield Tram-train connecting chord...

Does anyone know when the line to Library will reopen? The Midland Metro website says October but no more detail. Does that look achievable from the works on the ground?

Metrolink seem to be inexplicably strict on many sorts of behaviour - food and drink is also banned, even at Tramstops. It's funny because whenever I used to travel on their services, almost every journey was affected by people acting illegally in some sort of antisocial manner.

Agreed, although we seem (rightly so in my opinion) to not give private security guards any kind of equipment unlike other countries - I’ve seen one or two of the “street warden” types with handcuffs but that’s it. Remember being on a Renfe Cercanías train in Spain meanwhile where a security...

Is it true that the Trafford Centre branch line terminates at Cornbrook station as per the maps? Seems a bit of a shame that they can’t get it as a direct Tram to the city centre. I know that in normal times the line between Cornbrook <> St Peters Sq is one of the most frequent two track rail...

Agreed. Just loads a picture of Rudi Giuliani for me.

FWIW, Manual operation (as in the act of actually driving the train) is actually quite uncommon. Most of the time the staff are just at the front to operate the doors etc. It’s very old fashioned. Has been Passenger Service Agent for a number of years now.

Sorry I'd not seen this post sooner! I wrote a literature review when I was at university about this. All I could find from my notes is a 2002 Oscar Faber "Croydon Tramlink Impact Study" that estimated the transfer from car to Tram as 19% - 16% as the car driver and 3% as a car passenger.

I note that West India Quay has a dagger, which indicates that there is some kind of special service pattern in force. Unfortunately for some reason TfL no longer publicise on the map what this dagger means, and instead tell you to use the journey planner. Even the stations list page doesn’t...